This past year wasn’t kind to billionaires all over the world. Plummeting oil prices, shaky stock markets and a stronger dollar wreaked havoc on fortunes. In the Arab world, aggregate net worth was ...

Learn More About the Origins of the Arab Zaghrouta! How and When Did it Come About? The celebratory noise that Arabs make when good things happen? That's called a zaghrouta! However, where did it come ...

Arab family businesses are not a footnote to the region’s economic story: they are much of the story itself. Across MENA, family-owned and family-run enterprises play a big role in the private-sector ...

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The movement for a Jewish state gained traction in the nineteenth century, as Jews increasingly migrated to Ottoman Palestine to escape antisemitism in Europe and return to a land intimately linked to ...